OccupyWallStreet - 'The Marines (vets) are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors'
 

http://www.in5d.com/occupy-wall-stre...rotestors.html

October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just received an unexpected surprise ? United States Army and Marine troops are reportedly on their way to various protest locations to support the movement and to protect the protesters.

Army serviceman Ward Reilly posted the following on Facebook:

?I'm heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform.

I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:

I didn't fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it's Congress' turn.

Maybe this is the start of something big.

Getting that feeling too :2 cents:

Citizen movements are successfully taking place in other countries, too...

In LA Pershing Square is being occupied by protestors, I believe NOW...
http://soulsecretservice.wordpress.com/

http://www.livestream.com/owslosangeles

dozens were arrested in BOSTON Friday in front of Bank of America headquarters.

no doubt it is gaining momentum. now i am seeing all kinds of people at the protests being interviewed, not just the "youths" who started it.

they are supposedly moving on washington dc in a week or two as well.

I feel so ....... Egyptian.

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I sure hope it is.

We need this world wide. Soldiers refusing to fight for the government but standing up as one with the people.

Interesting point because if this movement gets huge you know the govt's are going to try to call in the armed forces/national guard to quell the uprisings.

It's quite possible many in the armed forces are making the first move as if to say "no, we aren't going to be your tools to attack our own fellow citizens."

Those marines are just the first. I wonder how many others will now realise they feel the same way and join in? This could get very massive.

These guys are getting maced. :2 cents:

Never Fuckin Happen.

If this protest is construed to be a political protest and active duty military personnel actively participate there can be a military judicial consequence for them to pay.

10%+ unemployment and wide disparity of incomes is always much worse for the rich than the poor in the long run.
Wealthy people are insulated and won't be affected. The guy with 50M+ can't be touched.
It's the guy with a few Million who gets mauled as the wealthy abandon him and the poor riot.
Smart rich people keep the gap small enough to be tolerable.

As wall street traders have always said:
Bulls make money, Bears make money... Pigs get slaughtered.

Hopefully this is enough of a wakeup call and doesn't get any worse.

The marine posted his "call" on reddit yesterday.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/com...eddit_we_took/

This is good news for us, right now our US customers really have very little extra to spend (record unemployment, skyrocketing rent/mortgage/food costs).

If there was some sort of real change in the ole' USA (hasn't been any yet), i predict our sales situations would improve drastically.

Yes, the prevalence of free content and piracy will always be a huge factor but there's always been relatively large amounts of 'free wank' material since the early days of the internet. The pay offering is always better and there are some great ones out there today.

It is no coincidence that our biggest market is in the worst condition it's been for decades. It's gotten bad enough that people are finally taking to the streets.

Hang in there, keep accumulating traffic, you will be rewarded handsomely when times are good again.

it's fake / a hoax. doesn't stop the conspiracy sheep from blindly repeating it though.

Yes, the 'truly wealthy' will be just fine. They always are... but so many people who are 'barely rich' get confused into believing they are wealthy when they are not - and they are the ones who pay the price of civil unrest when income gaps grow too wide. It has happened that way throughout history. :2 cents:

I hope they bring their guns!

great stuff!!

With New York's gun laws? Not a great idea.

I really hope they can stay on track with the message, if they spread the shit too thin with alot of different things they are going to lose supporters.
keep the focus on govt/wall street, this is where most people agree.

when they try to throw in these anti-capitalist scattered sub-protests it does more harm than good imo.

capitalism is not the problem, corruption is.

on edit- maybe i'm captain obvious today;)

No. It's a very good point to make, and one that radical left wingers refuse to understand. The simpletons on this board tar rail against "greedy corporations" and fail to see that, according to your point of view, everyone in this business is part of "greedy coporations". It's the corruption part that needs to be addressed, not some twisted anti-success communiistic crap.



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Not likely, at least not over the same protest.
There are very few countries that are so blatently in the pocket of corporations as america.
In Europe, if we have protests like this, its more likely to be over the EU.

Correct.

Hope they only "do what their rank can handle", haha.

I like the idea of rallying against Wall Street and against corporate greed gone wild, but unfortunately the protesters don't seem to have any plan or goal, other than to bring attention to themselves.

Until the protesters, as a collective, decide what it is SPECIFICALLY, that they WANT, or that they are AGAINST, they will eventually just look like a group of idiotic kids (ie Anonymous) just gathering for the sake of gathering.

This type of protest should have been happening when the banks were failing, and demanding government welfare and handouts from Washington, with OUR tax money!

Now it's two years later, so it's hardly a "timely" Wall Street protest. The people have been screwed over, the wealthy took everyone's money, and no one in Washington (on either side) seem to want to stand with the people against the greed, because the criminals continue to finance their campaigns.

The protest is screaming out for a logical position with an understandable and clear message, and that position should be as much against Congress and Washington, as it is against Wall Street.

A real agenda needs to come together. For example, people threatening to pull all their money out from (blank), or striking against (blank), or boycotting (blank), etc.

To just form angry mobs, without a common direction or goal, is almost stupid. What will be accomplished by this?

For example, change all protest signs to say "Repeal Citizens United - End Corporate Personhood" and at least there is a specific petition that can possibly gain traction, and become a populace focus point. Develop a logical agenda. I'm angry so I am holding a random sign, is not going to gain any sustained momentum.

Seriously, these guys are all over the fucking place. They have no unified agenda at all. They're against corporate greed, as they type away on $2000 Macbook Pros, supporting the largest company in the world. I saw an interview that a guy said "If you have student loan debt, you should be here." Why? Because you wanted an education and had to take a loan? Why not protest the Universities instead for raising tuition each year? Then another sign I saw was talking about animal rights? WTF? They have no clue what they're doing and it's making them appear that they're just blaming the banks for every problem in America. What do they want, the banks to go out of business? They're not even clear on that.

Its hard to go against wall street

Unfortunately this entire movement is controlled opposition. No way fat toad Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Russel Simmons etc etc are going to get involved in a real protest, point the fingers at the right people, and lead the people to harm the criminals who are responsible. I call BS on this entire Occupy Wall st protest. These protesters are tools of the very establishment they claim to want to bring down.
?The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.?
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
http://www.stel.ru/museum/lenin_muse...enin_photo.jpg

True. If they just stuck to the corruption angle and nothing else i think you would have 10's of thousands of people in the street right now.
It's the only thing that should be addressed as a unified front.

To simply say "capitalism sucks" or "corporations suck" is going to alienate so many people who would otherwise agree that drastic changes are needed in govt.

For instance-
http://news.yahoo.com/700-arrested-p...030009188.html

If you read the comments below you will see just how many people agree with the basic premiseof these protests, it's astounding really.

But if they keep going off on tangents like "capital punishment," "poverty" (duh) etc., they will probably end up with large splinter groups totally against each other.

By now most people agree that capitalism in a social-democracy is the right way to go, the only thing lacking is a mechanism to thwart corruption...heh...

When shit hits the fan the masses will end up fighting each other and the people at the top will have even more control. Yes of course we will " End the Fed" as many of the signs at the protest say and the current economic system will be replaced. THAT HAS BEEN THE ENIRE GOAL ALL ALONG. So this Occupy Wall St movement helps the very people who put us here in the first place.
Watch this clip of Keith Oberman. Do you guys really think a real rant would be allowed on the mainstream media? Controlled opposition at it's finest!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9IvUf72aVpg

One can only hope and lets hope the fucking tea baggers stay the fuck a way from it.

It's the start of something big!

http://static.life.com/app/621/ugc12...y-standard.jpg

again...

The puppets who lead the tea party are in bed with the same people who are stoking the flames of this protest, are in bed with the same people who profit from the FED, are in bed with the same people who pay Keith Oberman to squeal like a castrated pig, are in bed with the people who groomed and got Obama elected, etc etc. They think of the masses as cattle for a good reason.

fake quote with no source. as usual blindly parroting whatever ill sourced garbage you read on the prison planet forums.

LOL, prison planet is complete bullshit. I would never read anything on that place on purpose. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh Alex Jones is the most obvious example of controlled opposition which has ever existed. And of course with your post we have the usual "shout them down" tactic that does not counter my point at all but resorts to either character assassination or questions the validity of the quote.

Listen, the FED will be ended there is not doubt about that. But we will have every fat lazy unprepared turd fighting each other. Divide an Conquer. The people who put us here will have even more power and will swoop in and "save" the turds with a new economic. system. Of course the Bill of Rights and Constitution will not be part of it. I would also expect a few false flags thrown in for good measure. People will be controlled with food just like Ukraine 100 years ago where 8 million were mass murdered because they were resisting. Oops, the turds are not supposed to know about that part of history.

Right dude! cuz the illuminati are controlling haarp with help from the lizard people;)